OUGADOUGO, Burkina Faso — The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso, She fled her village after it was attacked by extremists, leaving her husband and her farm behind. Since then, she has been moving from place to place,…
NEW YORK — All of Broadway’s marquees will dim to honor the life of Gavin Creel following an outcry by theater fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the 48-year-old Tony Award-winner’s death last month. The Committee of Theater Owners on Wednesday said all 41 Broadway theaters would dim their lights on separate…
NEW YORK — Osvaldo Golijov was running out of time. The Argentine-born composer had been commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center for a chamber opera to be performed in the summer of 2003. And with the deadline just months away, his original idea wasn’t panning out. “It didn’t go anywhere. I had nothing,” he recalled…
LONDON — LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smiththe masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “ “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89….
NEW YORK– Jeanine Tesori watched the world premiere run of her “Grounded” with director Michael Mayer last fall at the Kennedy Center and noticed audience fidgeting. “It didn’t need a transplant of a liver, but what it needed was maybe just a different approach,” Mayer recalled. “Some rhinoplasty,” Tesori interjected. “A tracheotomy at one point.”…
VENICE, Italy — VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice Film Festival regular Luca Guadagnino is back on the Lido to debut his new Daniel Craig film “Queer” on Tuesday night. A festival favorite, Guadagnino had to forgo a splashy red carpet premiere for the sexy tennis drama “Challengers” last year, when the studio delayed its release…
LONDON– LONDON (AP) — Ian McKellen is listening to his inner critic. it’s beating him up for not finishing out his latest theater role after he fell off the stage during a June performance of “Player Kings” and spent three nights in the hospital. “Emotionally, I feel guilty and ashamed, you know, quite irrational because…
LOS ANGELES — In a sleepy summer weekend at the box office, holdovers reigned supreme as newcomers landed without a splash. “Deadpool , “Wolverine” reclaimed first place at the North American box office in its fifth weekend with $18.3 million. Its cumulative international earnings now sit at over $1.2 billion. The Walt Disney Co., which…
